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Delivery day at our Microsoft DCs as the first production Vera Rubins arrive. A huge thank you to our partners at NVIDIA and our Azure hardware and datacenter teams for all the incredible work that brought us to this milestone!
Satya Nadella announced the arrival of the first production Vera Rubins at Microsoft data centers. This milestone was achieved through collaboration between NVIDIA and Azure hardware and datacenter teams.
Why it matters
This infrastructure could reduce the financial cost of AI inference and the number of GPUs needed for training. It suggests that physical hardware scale is becoming a primary competitive advantage in AI.
The details
- Vera Rubin may offer 10x lower inference cost per token.
- Large MoE models may require 4x fewer GPUs than Blackwell.
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